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Shirley Neilsen Blum, also known as Shirley Hopps (born 14 October 1932) is an American art historian, author, gallerist, and professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Purchase (1970–1989). She specializes in Northern Renaissance art, early Netherlandish art, and modern art. In the 1950s through the 1960s, she was active in the ...
Sep 4, 2023 · Sept. 4, 2023. The art dealer Irving Blum remembers walking into Leo Castelli ’s New York gallery in 1965 and being taken by Roy Lichtenstein’s painting of a composition book, because he ...
Mar 30, 2012 · Irving Blum. If the contemporary-art scene of mid-1950s New York was small, centered mostly around a cluster of galleries on 57th Street, then its Los Angeles counterpart was miniscule by comparison. There were just a handful of galleries in L.A. at the time; few were showing new American art; and it wouldn’t be until the early-’60s that ...
Interviews. Andy Warhol’s impression on the art world is seemingly ubiquitous. With a new docuseries set to reveal his diaries, and a theatre production currently on, we spoke to the art dealer who gave Warhol his first show: Irving Blum. Blum’s life in the art world, though, stretches far beyond Warhol alone. History is a contentious concept.
Jun 5, 2014 · By Spear's. About three years ago I was talking with the art dealer Irving Blum in London. He was venting. Blum has a track record. Most famously he gave Andy Warhol his first show as a fine artist — Campbell’s Soup Cans at $100 apiece — at Ferus, his Los Angeles gallery, but he also gave early shows to Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg ...
“Irving is very outgoing, and Roy was rather reticent,” she said. “They had the same sense of humor and irony.” Lichtenstein showed with the famous dealer Castelli, whom Blum sought to emulate when in 1958 he bought the artist Edward Kienholz’s share of the Ferus Gallery on North La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles for $500.
